When Qin Longyuan's father and son were talking about Qin Ziling and the family, Qin Ziling had already settled in a house in the west of the Qin Mansion under the arrangement of the steward.

The house is three in and three out, equipped with maidservants, if Qin Ziling needs anything, he just needs to give a command.

After Qin Ziling settled down, he remembered what Qin Xingbao had said before leaving, so he asked the servant to take him to the "Yingwu Academy".

Yingwu Temple, also located in the west of the Qin Mansion, is a large complex of buildings, with more than 200 courtyards.

Each house has a house number written on it.

Qin Ziling asked Qin Xingbao's house number from the guard, and found Qin Xingbao easily.

"Uncle Clan, you're here, please take a seat, please take a seat." Qin Xingbao saw that Qin Ziling really came to him, and couldn't help but have a radiant face, and hurriedly beckoned Qin Ziling to sit down, while ordering the servants to prepare refreshments.

"You're in a good environment here!" Qin Ziling glanced around and said with a smile.

"Hehe, when the true identity of the clan uncle Ming'er is decided, you will know that my house is not worth mentioning." Qin Xingbao said.

"Didn't you say that you broke through this time to become a great martial artist in the middle stage of bone refining, and you should have hope to be among the key disciples? Listening to your tone, I don't have much confidence! Qin Ziling said.

"I'm different from Uncle Clan, you are a key disciple, maybe you can even become a core disciple. If I want to be among the key disciples, I have to compete with other clansmen. I took the time to inquire just now, this year, there are many outstanding children from the Qin family's main sect and other branches in various places, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to compete for this place. Qin Xingbao said.

"The road of martial arts cultivation is originally to be brave and diligent, all the way through thorns and thorns, to face difficulties, how can you lose confidence because of the emergence of strong competitors? On the contrary, you should be happy that there are so many powerful competitors who are all whetstones on your martial arts cultivation path. Qin Ziling said with a serious face when he heard this.

"What Uncle Clan taught is that Xingbao has been taught!" Qin Xingbao quickly said with an awe-inspiring face.

Qin Ziling saw that Qin Xingbao was willing to humbly accept the preaching of his young clan uncle, and nodded, his eyes showing a hint of approval.

Then the servant brought refreshments.

Qin Xingbao personally got up and poured tea for Qin Ziling, and then said, "Just now, the steward should have taken the clan uncle to meet the clan elder who was responsible for receiving foreign children, right?" ”

"I met my great-grandfather and the head of the family." Qin Ziling replied.

Qin Xingbao couldn't help but shudder when he heard this, and then he said with envy and excitement: "You have just arrived, and the old ancestor and the head of the family have actually seen you, it seems that the clan uncle is very valued by them, and there is great hope for him to become a core disciple!" ”

Qin Ziling smiled noncommittally when he heard this.

He is here mainly to practice the exercises, but he doesn't want to be too conspicuous.

"However, Uncle Clan, you must be mentally prepared. The number of core disciples is very small and precious, even if the direct descendants of the main vein want to be selected, they need to go through fierce competition, as for the children of the main vein branch like you, as well as the children of the family branch, if you want to be selected as the core disciple, you have to go through the family meeting and the assessment of the clan elders, and the head of the family cannot make a decision directly. Qin Xingbao followed and said.

"It's okay, I know it." Qin Ziling said.

"Uncle Clan, I know that you are self-made and a person with great skills. However, in addition to our own efforts, the support of external forces is also very important, which can save us many detours and time. You should know that the most important thing for a warrior is time.

The status of the core children in the family is second only to the clan elders, and the investment in resources is even much higher than that of some clan elders who have no room for breakthroughs. If you are among the ranks of the core disciples, you will have the flesh and blood of the five different beasts every three or five times, and with your talent, you may be able to become a little martial arts master before the age of thirty. Becoming a junior martial arts master at the age of thirty, the hope of the general middle grandmaster is great, and even the great grandmaster has a glimmer of hope. ”

Seeing that Qin Ziling looked indifferent, Qin Xingbao hesitated and reminded with a serious face.

"Okay Xingbao, thank you for the reminder." Qin Ziling nodded, then changed the topic, chatted for a while, and then got up to say goodbye.

Back at the residence, Qin Ziling gave an order to his servants, then closed the door alone, took out a cooked five-grade exotic beast meat from the storage ring, ate it to his heart's content, and then began to run the exercises to slowly refine the qi and blood strength into the deepest part of the skull.

Soon, the muscles on Qin Ziling's face twisted, sweating profusely, and his body trembled slightly.

The skull is the most difficult place to cultivate, and the depths of the skull are even more difficult, even if Qin Ziling cultivates the strength of the five attributes of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth, the fusion of the five kinds of strength also gives birth to a trace of yin and yang life and death power, and with the help of a powerful divine soul, refining to this point is also difficult, and the pain is abnormal.

It wasn't until the dead of night that Qin Ziling stopped refining his bones, took out the magic crystal and turned to refining qi.

The energy of the magic crystal was pure, and Qin Ziling only needed to cultivate for an hour, and the meridians and dantian of his whole body felt swelling and pain, reaching saturation.

Putting away the magic crystal, Qin Ziling visualized the "Immortal Galaxy".

After such a practice, at the beginning of the Yin period, Qin Ziling closed his eyes and fell into a deep sleep.

The next day, after breakfast, Qin Ziling, under the leadership of the steward, came to the meeting hall of the Qin Mansion.

The council hall is grand and heavy, sitting north and facing south.

The head of the family, Qin Zaixin, sat high in the position of the head of the family, and there were eighteen people sitting on the left and right sides below.

The eighteen men were of various ages, almost all of them men, with only two women.

These people are all powerful, surging in blood and blood, and they are all martial arts masters, and Qin Xingjun, the Qin family's Tianjiao, who Qin Ziling saw outside the Qin Mansion yesterday, was also present.

However, most of them are junior martial arts masters, and there are only three middle grandmasters, including the head of the family.

"What the teacher said is true, there are many martial arts cultivators, as long as the resources are sufficient, it is relatively easy to cultivate some small martial arts masters, but due to the age limit of qi and blood, it is difficult for martial arts to produce middle grandmasters, and it is even more difficult for great grandmasters, which is like a rarity.

Speaking of which, the Qin family is also one of the few wealthy families in Wuzhou, and they can casually pull out more than a dozen martial arts masters, so that a force can directly sweep the entire Xiyun Prefecture, but there are only three grandmasters in the martial arts, and there is no one in the great grandmaster.

No wonder how any martial artist competes for hegemony in the world, no matter which one sits on the country, Qi refining has always been transcendent in the world, above the court and society, and supervising the world. ”

Qin Ziling walked into the meeting hall, although he didn't use his eyes to scan it, he had basically felt the cultivation of everyone present.

"Ziling has seen the head of the family and the clan elders!" Qin Ziling was neither humble nor arrogant, and at the same time tried his best to restrain himself, only slightly revealing a part of the fluctuations in the qi and blood strength of the Cold Iron Gong.

"At the age of twenty-six, he reached the realm of the late stage of bone refining, which is considered very talented, and his heart is also good, and he is qualified to be selected into the ranks of core disciples. But now the Qin family is different from twenty years ago, at that time, our Qin family still had a great grandmaster in charge, the strong were like clouds, and the resources under control were like mountains and seas.

But in the past 20 years, our Qin family has lost too much, especially in the competition for the position of the crown prince, we have miscalculated the situation, after the six princes sat on the throne of the crown prince, they did not target our Qin family, so how many resources have our Qin family transported to the country over the years.

Therefore, in my opinion, the number of core children must be reduced as appropriate, and the qualifications for selection must also be more strictly assessed, so that the best resources can really be used on the blade, and there can be no more waste, what do you say? A bald old man sitting on the left hand side of the head of the family looked at Qin Ziling and said with a fist at Qin Zaixin.

Qin Zaixin glanced at the bald old man, nodded, and then said earnestly, "What the Great Elder said also makes sense. However, it is precisely because our Qin family is now on the decline, and we must be more attentive in cultivating the younger children of the next generation. The age limit of martial artists is too great, and the young children are the hope of our Qin family! ”

"That's true, but the best resources are limited!" The Great Elder shook his head and sighed.

Qin Zaixin saw that the Great Elder shook his head and sighed, the corners of his mouth twitched slightly, and soon returned to normal, his gaze slowly swept over the rest of the people below, and asked, "What do you think?" ”

"Actually, it's simple, Qin Ziling's age and realm are qualified enough, so it depends on his strength!" Qin Xingjun, the youngest in the hall, spoke.

Everyone nodded in agreement.

"Then Xingjun will make a move with Ziling." Qin Zaixin said.

When Qin Xingjun heard this, he was just about to get up to receive the order, when a man with big ears and a smile that looked like he was only about forty years old stood up and said, "The head of the family, it's better for me to come." ”

After that, the big-eared man had already walked out of the column, and said to Qin Ziling with a smile on his face: "Ziling, my name is Qin Zirong, speaking of you and my peers, it is more appropriate for me to come and play with you." ”

Qin Ziling did not respond to Qin Zirong, but raised his eyes and looked at the head of the family.

"Then you can make a move with Elder Zirong. You just have to go all out, Elder Zirong has been in the Little Grandmaster realm for ten years, and his strength is strong, you can't hurt him. Seeing Qin Ziling looking at him, Qin Zaixin nodded and said.

"It's the head of the house!" Qin Ziling bowed down and replied, but secretly sighed in his heart.

He couldn't see that the head of the family and the great-uncle should still want to vigorously cultivate him, but Qin Zaixin's lineage was an accident in the main line of the Qin family twenty years ago, and the strength and prestige were not enough to deter the whole clan, so there was a controversial scene in the council room.

Even this Qin Zirong was obviously worried about Qin Xingjun's release of water, so he rushed to come out.

It stands to reason that Qin Zaixin treats himself like this, Qin Ziling should fight for a breath, but he doesn't want to come out, and from the conversation just now, Qin Ziling is not difficult to hear that the Qin family was still in the wrong position in the battle for the crown prince back then, and the situation is not good now.

It can be seen that at the level of the Qin family, the power struggle involved has risen to a very high level.

In this case, Qin Ziling can't come out, and he has to keep a low profile, so that the Qin family will really have difficulties at that time, so that he will have room for maneuver.

Otherwise, he would have been targeted early and targeted, and he would have been completely tied to the Qin family's warship, and there would be no room for maneuver.